Hearing Pepper Potts' words of comfort, Maya said, "Thank you, Pepper."
"I am truly grateful for what you said."
Just as Maya Hansen was about to say something more, Charlotte Doyle interrupted:
What specific research is being conducted?
"Could it be that you developed the devices used to cause the bombings?"
Upon hearing Charlotte's question, Pepper Potts also turned her gaze to her.
Maya Hansen paused for two seconds, then said, "My research involves using chemical reagents to enter the brain and repair the central nervous system's recoding—a study of gene recombination."
"The goal of this research is to cure patients' diseases and to have limb regeneration capabilities."
Pepper Potts exclaimed in surprise, "Killian once showed me a bit of this technology. If it weren't used for human modification and private armaments, it would be a technology that could benefit humanity."
Tsunade, who hadn't paid much attention before, spoke up at this moment, "Are you saying that this technology can repair severed limbs?"
Are there any successful examples?
Maya Hansen nodded. "There have been successful cases, but it's not stable yet. There are still some defects in the product that need to be improved."
Tsunade nodded thoughtfully, but did not ask any further questions. Although she was quite interested in the technology, she also knew that it was the result of someone else's hard work.
Then Charlotte spoke up at that moment, "Is the flaw that you self-destruct when you can't control your emotions?"
"Like a high-temperature bomb."
Upon hearing Charlotte's words, both Pepper Potts and Tsunade wore expressions of disbelief. Pepper Potts even exclaimed, "You sold your product to the Mandarin?"
Maya Hansen was incredulous at Charlotte's words. How did she know? This matter shouldn't have been leaked, especially regarding the product's defects.
"No, we did not sell the product to the Mandarin."
"And how did you know about the product defect? Our information could not possibly have been leaked."
Tsunade looked at Maya Hansen and found that she wasn't lying. She immediately became curious about what she meant by working for the Mandarin.
One of these two statements must be a lie, or the truth must contain a lie.
Charlotte laughed and said, "Yes, why sell to the Mandarin?"
Seeing the smile on the other person's lips, Maya Hansen felt a chill run down her spine. Had the other person noticed something?
Just then, an alarm sounded in the base, and a virtual image of the Red Queen appeared before everyone.
"Master, enemies have invaded."
Gunfire and sounds of battle then rang out outside the base. It turned out that Killian had dispatched a nine-man squad, all soldiers injected with the Extremis Virus, to infiltrate Charlotte's base and quietly abduct Maya Hansen.
However, the moment the entire squad scaled the wall and entered the base, preparing to locate Maya Hansen using the positioning signal, they were spotted by patrolling Werewolf soldiers, and a firefight immediately ensued.
"Da-da-da!"
Upon seeing the enemy scaling the wall, the patrolling Werewolf immediately unleashed a burst of bullets, but the bullets failed to inflict any damage on the enemy.
The soldiers who were attacked were seen to glow with an orange light, and the spots where they had been hit by bullets immediately healed.
Upon seeing this, Lyle the Werewolf immediately realized that the enemy was not simple and pressed the alarm on his body at the first opportunity.
Upon seeing that they were stopped by two armed guards, the Extremis Virus Squad spoke up:
"Clay, Froom, stay and deal with the enemy. The rest of you, come with me to continue searching for targets."
Clay and James remained where they were, looked at the enemy before them, and said, "Yes, sir!"
The two men raised their Assault Rifle and pulled the triggers at the enemy in front of them, while the others looked at the location information in their hands and continued to run wildly into the base.
"Da-da-da!"
Clay and Froom hadn't anticipated that while they weren't ordinary people, their enemies weren't ordinary soldiers either.
The moment the two pulled the trigger, Lyle and Badu anticipated this and ran to dodge, their speed so great that the bullets never hit them.
"Boom!"
As the two approached, he instantly kicked the other away. Although the speed and strength of the Extremis Virus soldier were inferior to those of the Werewolf soldier, its recovery ability was by no means weak. Combined with its high-temperature arm for close-range attacks, it was surprisingly unable to defeat the opponent for a while.
Meanwhile, the other seven members of the Extremis Virus team who had just left were surrounded by a group of Werewolf soldiers and engaged in battle before they could even cross the lawn to reach the building.
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At this moment, Charlotte Doyle, who was in the Rest Area, had just finished listening to the Red Queen's report and then spoke:
"It seems some people are up to no good; they don't know which places they can't just barge into."
"Won't Maya Hansen go and see what your team has accomplished?"
Maya Hansen looked dejected and said, "It seems you already know..."
Pepper Potts, having finally realized what was happening, exclaimed incredulously, "It was your men who attacked Tony!"
Charlotte Doyle quickly led the group outside, where they saw nine Extremis Virus soldiers surrounded by Werewolf, fighting like cornered beasts.
Upon seeing Charlotte Doyle's appearance, the Werewolf guards immediately made way for her.
"What is Killian's purpose in summoning you here?"
Upon seeing Charlotte appear with Maya Hansen and Pepper Potts, the Extremis Virus soldiers realized their mission was doomed. They immediately lost control of themselves and mobilized all their energy in preparation for self-destruction.
"Die with us!"
Orange-red light flashed around them; if the nine of them were to successfully self-destruct here, the resulting destruction would be considerable.
Seeing the scene before her, Tsunade prepared to lead the two of them to retreat and avoid the enemy's attack, but Charlotte quickly Hand Seals.
"Ice Style: Ice Pillar Swallow!"
The moment Charlotte completed the Hand Seals, she immediately hurled nine ice spikes at the nine people. The ice spikes formed a huge ice pillar the instant they hit their targets, freezing all nine of them in place.
The orange light emanating from the other party combined with the ice, but instead of instantly transforming into a high-temperature human bomb, it flickered a few times before stopping and finally fading away.
However, Charlotte's Ice Style, supported by powerful Chakra, was far more powerful than Haku's, and with the blessing of the Supreme Dragon Ring, it was even more potent, instantly freezing the energy of the nine opponents.
Upon seeing this, Tsunade stopped and put down Pepper Potts and Maya Hansen, who were on her left and right.
Seeing everything that happened before her eyes, Maya Hansen, the moment Tsunade released her, ran towards the ice pillar with a somewhat obsessive look.
Upon reaching them, Maya Hansen looked at the nine people inside the ice pillar and exclaimed, "My God, this is incredible! You actually stopped their self-destruction!"
"This is an explosion at a temperature of 3000 degrees Celsius."
Charlotte looked at Maya Hansen and said, "Maya, it's time for you to fully explain everything you know."
"Lyle, arrange for these nine popsicles to be delivered to Orochimaru's Laboratory."
"Yes, Lord Charlotte!"
Maya Hansen knew she could no longer hide it, so she nodded and said, "I will tell you everything I know."
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On the other side.
While piloting the Iron Patriot Rhodey in the air, he received another order from command.
"This is support team Blue Zero Team, sending a suspicious Mandarin signal coordinate."
Rhodey looked at the message and immediately replied, "Received!"
Based on the coordinates, Rhodey charged in again, brandishing his weapon the instant he entered the department and shouting:
"Don't move."
However, what came into view was a group of workers dressed in black robes, using sewing machines to make sportswear.
After scanning the area and finding no weapon threat, Rhodey immediately reported with a sigh:
"Support team Blue Zero Team, this is a sportswear manufacturing workshop, the target is wrong again."
Upon seeing the steel patriot, the factory workers immediately rushed forward to shake his hand and leave.
Seeing this, Rhodey assumed it was a Blackheart factory and said, "You're free now, if you weren't before."
As Rhodey shook hands with each person to express his gratitude, the last woman, dressed in a black robe, grasped Rhodey's hand and bowed deeply in thanks.
"No need to thank me, madam, it's my pleasure."
However, the next second, the opponent's palm turned bright red, and Rhodey's Iron Patriot immediately started reporting a malfunction. The extremely high temperature made the armored arm turn bright red, and the next second Rhodey collapsed.
At this moment, the woman pulled off her veil, revealing blond hair and a white United States man. He then took out his phone and reported:
"Savin? I've already gotten my hands on the Iron Patriot armor."
Upon hearing the other party's words and looking at the constantly flashing malfunction information on the screen in front of him, Rhodey said, "If you want this armor, you'll have to pry my cold corpse out of it."
The woman hung up the phone, looked at the Iron Patriot lying on the ground, and said calmly, "That's what I think, Colonel."
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On the other side.
Tony, who believed Killian had sold the products to the Mandarin, prepared to return to Harry, don his armor, and get ready for battle.
While driving, Tony dialed Harry's number and asked, "Harry, tell me how things are going, give me a full report."
Harry answered the phone and said, "Okay, I'm eating candy right now. Do you think I should keep eating it?"
Tony casually asked, "How much have you eaten?"
"Two or three bowls, I guess."
As he spoke, Harry reached into the bowl again for some candy.
Hearing all this, Tony immediately asked, "Can you see things clearly?"
"It's alright."
"Then you're all right. Give the phone to Jarvis."
Harry placed the phone on Mark 42's faceplate, and Tony asked:
"Jarvis, how's the situation?"
"No problem at all, I've been doing quite well lately."
"But at the end of the sentence, I always say the wrong thing."
"And Master, you were right."
"Every time I access AIM's download the Nexus facilities, I can find the Mandarin's broadcast signal."
Tony asked, "Where is it? The Far East, Europe, North Africa, Iran, Pakistan, or Syria?"
Where exactly is it?
Jarvis replied, "Actually, in Miami, Master."
Upon hearing the address, Tony paused for a moment, then said, "Okay, kid, I'll teach you step by step how to restart Jarvis's voice driver, but not now."
"Harry, where is it?"
Tony clearly thought Jarvis might have given an error report, so he had Harry double-check the location address on the computer.
"Look at the screen and tell me where I am?"
Harry picked up his phone, looked at the location displayed on the computer screen, and said, "It does say Miami, Florida."
After confirming the address was correct, Tony immediately inquired about the armor's condition, "Okay, this is crucial. I need my armor. How is it?"
"It won't charge."
Upon hearing that the armor wouldn't charge, Tony slammed on the brakes and brought the car to a stop.
Jarvis's voice came through at that moment. "Master, it's actually charging, but there's a problem with the power supply."
"It may not be possible to reactivate number 42."
Tony immediately asked, "Is there a problem with the power? Is everything alright?"
"That's my armor, I can't... I won't... I don't want to..."
Before Tony could finish speaking, he took a deep breath, as his anxiety disorder flared up again.
"Oh my god, here we go again."
Tony immediately opened the car door, wanting to breathe in some fresh air, but he collapsed to the ground as soon as he stepped out.
Harry asked with concern, "Tony, are you having another episode?"
"I didn't even mention New York."
Tony ripped his hat off and leaned against the car, saying, "Alright, you said it without even telling me."
Harry said somewhat apologetically, "Okay."
Tony said helplessly, "Oh my god, what should I do?"
At this moment, his body was convulsing uncontrollably, and he was completely unable to control himself.
Harry shouted, "Breathe! Listen to me! Breathe!"
"You're a Mechanic, right?"
"Yes."
"You said that."
Yes, I did say that.
"Then why don't you build something and fix it?"
With Harry's few words, Tony had a flash of inspiration and instantly regained his composure, standing up and saying:
"Okay, thank you, child."
Once Tony Stark had recovered, he got into his car and immediately drove to the supermarket to buy some things to make useful tools and fix the Mark 42's charging problem.
Tony quickly bought two large shopping carts full of materials and headed towards Harry's house with them.
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On the other side.
Jiraiya didn't run very fast in order to take care of Kankuro's condition.
"Pakkun, has Tony's position changed?"
Pakkun turned to look at the two men as he ran, and said, "He's been moving constantly, so it seems there's no safety issue."
"Furthermore, based on the movement trajectory and speed, it shouldn't be the case of being kidnapped."
Hearing Pakkun's words, Kankuro breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiraiya glanced at Kankuro and said, "Would you like to take a break?"
Kankuro shook his head and said, "I can still hold on. Let's find Tony first."
Jiraiya nodded. "Okay."
Soon, the two people and the dog moved quickly through the night.